The Trump Administration, the stock markets in turmoil, the generals are out, the government is about to shut down and be in a bit of a crisis mode. This is a presidency in crisis right now. Were going to stay on top of all of the Breaking News. Thanks so much for watching. Erin Burnett Outfront starts erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good evening, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, the Breaking News, Defense Secretary jim mattis quits. In a stunning letter to the president of the United States, the four Star General Calling Out President Trump for not backing American Allies, for supporting authoritarian regimes. I want to read the entire letter, because this is a Turning Point for this administration, for President Trump, and for this country. Here is the letter from Defense Secretary mattis to the president of the United States, which he handed him today, in which he quit. Dear mr. President , i have been privileged to serve as our
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this nation and the world has not gotten that, and the entire world is watching this, because the entire world looked at jim mattis as a person they could trust. back in the day, we like rex, we like jim mattis, but we know the president listens to jim mattis. we know he knows what he s doing. now he is no longer there. please stay with me. i want to go to the pentagon now with more on the breaking news because we re learning about more about how this happened. mattis went to the white house this morning to discuss syria and he was livid. that s the word used. barbara starr is outfront from the pentagon. what more are you hearing about this, how he went to the meeting and obviously the letter was prepared, you know, to be used if he needed it. you re reporting he was livid. why? reporter: well, erin, what we know is that early this morning, about 7:30, the secretary here at the pentagon decided he needed to go to the white house later in the day. he had seen some reporting from t
this for the american people to read, and i think steve notwithstanding, a lot of republicans tonight have heartburn. they are worried. and we will see more bipartisan oversight and reaction to this and that s a good thing. i think this is the beginning of accountability. thank you both, and obviously, the breaking news here more details we re learning more about livid is the word, barbara starr is reporting. livid. mattis was about syria and a drawdown of u.s. troops in afghanistan as well. something administration officials have told cnn, that the president wants, and the wall street journal is now reporting that more than 7,000 american troops are going to start coming home from afghanistan in the coming weeks. the president is going to bring them home. i want to talk now to republican congressman from ohio, mike turner, who sits on the house armed services and intelligence committee. yesterday, congressman, you were deeply frustrated. you were upset and you were angry, you ha
states in various parts of the world. the chairman of the house intelligence committee, mike rogers, said yesterday on cnn that there will be violence and deaths if this report is released and only moments ago our barbara starr reported that thousands of u.s. marines have been put on a higher state of alert around the world in advance of the anticipated release of this senate report on behalf of the enhanced interrogation techniques. let s bring in jim sciutto who is joining us. it seems that there are conflicts messages coming from the obama administration, concern about the ramifications coming from the secretary of state john kerry although you heard an endorsement of this by the white house press secretary. i don t know if chuck hagel has spoken out about it, but based upon what barbara starr is
great to have both of you with us. there s so much here to talk about. but when we put this reporting together, john, we have a plane that turned off of its flight path, started to switch direction dramatically, switch altitude dramatically and seemed to level out heading out. and then made a choice, i m going to go left or right. when you put all that together, let s faulk about motive. who would want to do this or could this have happened in any way, shape or form with everybody on the plane being incapacitated or dead, the plane just kept flying? i think not. i think that s ruled out by the very physiology of it. the aircraft is not going to make course changes. it might make altitude changes. if this plane went up to 45,000 feet after it turned off course and it sustained that 45,000 foot altitude, which is above